Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

Whatever energy you put out there, that's the energy you're going to get back.

Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.

I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?

I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.

The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.